Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-28
The DisuniOnisfs of the North.

|
We referred short time ago t. pamph
| let i'm which Mr.. Eli Thaycr, OF Worcester
Mass, described the part played by organ
| lied Immigration in the making OF Klaus
a free State. But it seems that certain o
| the old AbOliliOnists, and more parted
| arly Mir. Oliver johnson, are offended be
| cause he has assumed TO take any Of III
credit for that result. They say that It wa
| the Garrison host whS did the work b.
| calling the people 10 a "m1ral fight :
| against slavery.
Mr.. 1hayer ihereupon proceeds 10 civ,
| the Abohionists such dressiDg-down a
| they have not received since the days o
| their prominence. He declares that al
| though "egOtism never yet equllle1 or ap
preached their own,' they were only mar
| plots IN the struggle against slavery; TIA
| their real purpose was not the overthrow o.
| slavery, but the destruction OF the Union
"Thcy knew" saws Sir. Thayer, " II klnSa,
became slave State there would be quite
an accession to the disunion element
Of the North" and therefore "their fra
tCTnity OF mOuntebanks or mOnOmanIacs .
deIided the practical efforts OF the emigra
ton society to diIcct TO Kansas settlers who
were on the side Of freedom, "fOr as +. w
IliggInsOn said, il would only be another
Massachusetts. The original Massachusetts
bad been tried and found wanting
Really" continues Mr.. Thayer, "thesC
II eli h d nothing more to do In accomplish.
ing the overthrow OF slavery in this cOun.
try than had the King OF the Canniba
Islands,
What the AbolitiOnists were after was
the overthrow Of the Union because it in.
VOWED the liberation aud protection OF
slavery: and whatever made slavery more
hateful 10 the people OF the North was re-
ceiyed by them with rejoicing, for it agra.
waited the ground Of offence against the
south and The ferl ling Of dissatisfaction
VIM the Union. The further the slave
poWd proceeded in its aggfeSsiOns the bet.
'er were they pleased, for tue North be-
come more earnest Ia ITS resentment, and
the boJes Of disuuiOn-ot the breaking up
II tie compact with he'll and league with
dcsth," a. they called the UniOn-Srew
stronger in their br asts.
Nj. ThaNeT, be il remembered, was al.
WINS bllter opponent Of slavery, aud at
great TcrsOnnl and pecuniary sacrifice or
gan,zfd and CARED iOrwatd tue movement
Tor the ETvc'ical redemption Of Kansas from
the poNer If The >liychOldors. He lived,
toe, in Worcester The great seat Of Adolf
toni>m. AND was intimately acquainted with
the Garrison patty and their purposes.
For twenty five Years before be started his
Emigration Society, when the repeal OF the
Missouri COMPROMISE uecame a ioregOne
conclusion. they had been carrying on
what Mr.. Oliver johnson calls their " moral
FIGHT " against slavery ith but remark
ably feeble response from The people, while
slavery aoni on from triumph to triumph.
so that II lad become stronger IN 1901 than
il had ever been since the foundation OF the
Government"
The Abolitioni,ts hated slavery, hut they
also hated the Union because slavery was
possible under IT, while the people OF the
North were determined 10 save The Union
at any cost, and accordingly detested the
Abolitiontsts. Bat the AbOilionists sue
ceeded in infiaming the south with hos'ill'
" TO the Union, so that when the election
OF Lincoln proved that the preponderance
OF political power had passed into the hand
OF the North, the war OF secession was pre-
cipitsted, Thus indirectly they c0ntfi
buted to the overthrow Of slavery, but only
so. They were as hateful 10 the N0r,h
because Of their disuni0nism as they
were to the South because OF their abO
litionism. q! course they helped to arouse
northern sentiment against slavery. but the
measures they proposed and advocated for
getting rid Of il were always detestible to
the North, for they involved the destruc-
ton Of the Union, for whose preservation
the civil war was waged. so far Is concerns
practical measures for checking the eXten-
sion of slavery they did nothing and adj.
yised nothing, except to curse the Union
and 10 labor for It's disruption.
The Garrison AbolIhonIsts were there
fore as uucompromising in their disunion-
ism as the bitterest dfe.eatcrs OF the South
and. az Mr. Thsyer says, II they had sue
ceeded in their purposes, the result would
have been "tbe destruction OF the Union
and the erection OF a great slave power